Free Blocks
Free Blocks is an application that helps you share your calendar on Slack. Free Blocks is compatible with your primary Google Calendar™ to determine when you're available, when your co-workers are available and create events to leverage discovered availability.Free Blocks' goal is to create an API for the workplace. We want to make it easy to query any work artifacts and calendars are just our first step. Follow our Substack for more updates! https://freeblocks.substack.com/
Permissions
Free Blocks will be able to view:
Free Blocks will be able to do:
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General
Developer
Free Blocks, Ben Brostoff and Josh Brostoff
Company headquarters location
United States
Terms of service
Privacy & data governance
Data retention policy
We use data provided by our Slack application only to address functionality necessary to share calendar data, namely your Slack identifying info (Workspace and User IDs) such that Free Blocks can tie it to Google Calendar data. We delete this data upon use request (see Data Deletion Policy). Data is retained for as long as the user has the application installed in their Slack workspace(s) and then deleted following either dis-installation or request for deletion (see Data Deletion Policy).
Data archiving and removal policy
We delete all user info stored by Free Blocks upon Slack app uninstall or upon requests made to info@freeblocksapp.com within 30 days. We send users deletion confirmation following deletion of data.
Data storage policy
We do not store personal data and store user and workspace ID only for the life of the Slack app install.
Data center location(s)
United States
Data hosting details
Heroku (AWS) is utilized and their managed Postgres service is used for data storage (https://www.heroku.com/postgres).
Data hosting company
Salesforce / AWS.
App/service has sub-processors
no
Certifications & compliance
Data deletion request procedure
Given a request to Free Blocks for data deletion, we remove all persisted records out of Klaviyo and Postgres within 30 days of the request.
HIPAA compliant
yes
While this app may offer HIPAA compliance, Slack does not have a business associate agreement with any third-party application providers, including those in the Slack Marketplace, so you are responsible for validating the provider's compliance and executing an appropriate agreement before enabling.
Security
Supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
no
Has a dedicated security team
no
Contact for security issues
ben.brostoff@gmail.com
Has a vulnerability disclosure program
no
Has a bug bounty program
no
Requires third party authorization/connections
yes
Uses token rotation
no